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Trip Adler

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131 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

The

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

by the read of the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So this way, from their perspective, it more or less looks like a sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So just like they're selling the book, we'll pay them any time the user reads the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So yeah, so we have a threshold that we use for when the book counts as a read.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So it's usually about 20% of the book is when that triggers the payment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We do share a bunch of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

It's a good idea that we should really, we do have a lot of interesting data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

I mean, we have people reading different books in our service and they read in others just because of the nature of the model and the types of content we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So it would be a really interesting thing to share.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We should share that more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Um, fair business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

I would say, uh, good to great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Well, good to great is on script, both in ebook and audio book form.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So listen to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Um, uh, I not, not really, but, um, I guess if I were to pick, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Uh, I think a couple, I think, um, um, I mean the other ones doing big subscription services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Uh, so like, I mean, I'm a big fan of, of other services that have kind of pioneered some ideas we're pursuing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So like, uh, read Hastings at Netflix or Daniel at Spotify.